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Dixon, Richard Early Life and Entrance to Service
Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father after his parents divorced.
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Dixon, Richard Life Aboard Ship
While they were under tow, a typical day aboard the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop] for Richard Tempus Dixo
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Dixon, Richard Overseas Deployment
Richard Tempus Dixon was assigned to the USS YR-69 [Annotator's Note: non-self-propelled floating workshop YR-69, in 1944], It was basically a
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Dixon, Richard Postwar Life and Career
Richard Tempus Dixon progressed through jobs as a building superintendent, including a time at University of California, Berkeley [Annotator's
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Dixon, Richard Reflections
Richard Tempus Dixon thinks institutions like The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], which he has visited, ar
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Dixon, Richard War's End and Returning Home
Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting.
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Dobbs, Clarence "Jack" Early Life, Enlistment, and Training
Clarence Lee Dobbs, known to his friends as Jack, was born in June 1925 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Dobbs, Clarence "Jack" Night Flights
General Frank Armstrong [Annotator's Note: US Air Force Lieutenant General Frank A.
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Dobbs, Clarence "Jack" Post-War Career
He took the advice of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jack Dobbs went right to work, hauling building supplies.
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Dobbs, Clarence "Jack" Unit Assignment and Overseas Deployment
After gunnery training, Clarence Lee "Jack" Dobbs was sent to a staging area in Lincoln, Nebraska, then to Harvard, Nebraska for gunnery
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Dobbs, Clarence "Jack" War’s End, Going Home, and Discharge
Clarence Lee "Jack" Dobbs was still on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshim
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Dochick, Wesley Drafted into the Navy
Wesley John Dochick was 21 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 Decemb